Senior Financial Analyst
Monarch Money
Director, Real Estate
Equinix
full-time
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Origin: • 🇺🇸 United States • California
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💰 $171,000 - $269,000 per year
Job Level
Lead
About the role
- Lead real estate underwriting, diligence, and deal structuring efforts for strategic transactions across the Americas.
- Manage multiple concurrent site searches and acquisition initiatives, identifying new markets and optimizing entry strategies.
- Direct land acquisition, ground-up development, and build-to-suit initiatives in alignment with business growth objectives.
- Collaborate cross-functionally to support due diligence and real estate integration for M&A opportunities.
- Partner with regional business leaders to shape long-term metro and regional real estate strategies, including capital planning and forecasting.
- Negotiate complex real estate transactions—including land purchases, leases, expansions, and dispositions—with internal legal counsel and external advisors.
- Provide strategic input on asset management initiatives, including expansions, reconfigurations, lease administration, and portfolio optimization.
- Guide the development of site-specific business cases, including build-out plans, development budgets, and ROI models.
- Oversee the full lifecycle of real estate development projects—from site acquisition through entitlement, permitting, and construction interface.
- Drive pre-development activities including feasibility studies, zoning analysis, and engagement with municipalities and development partners.
- Collaborate with design and construction teams to ensure real estate deliverables align with commercial, operational, and infrastructure objectives.
- Report to the Senior Director, Real Estate, Americas; support expansion and optimization of Equinix’s Americas footprint for colocation and hyperscale businesses, and drive revenue and AFFO growth.
Requirements
- 10+ years of progressive experience in commercial real estate, site selection, or real estate development; data center or digital infrastructure experience highly preferred.
- Proven experience in sourcing and executing land acquisition and development projects across multiple geographies.
- Demonstrated success managing real estate strategy in high-growth, capital-intensive environments.
- Strong understanding of real estate finance, development risk management, and valuation methodologies.
- Excellent financial modeling skills, particularly in Excel; experience presenting to investment committees.
- Adept at building partnerships with senior leadership, legal, finance, construction, and engineering stakeholders.
- Effective communicator with strong negotiation and influencing skills.
- Comfortable navigating a complex, matrixed organization and managing multiple priorities simultaneously.
- Experience working in multinational corporate environments is highly advantageous.
- Bachelor’s degree in Real Estate, Finance, Accounting, or related field required.
- Master’s degree (MBA or equivalent) strongly preferred.
- Real Estate License preferred.
- Experience with data center developers/operators, REITs, institutional investors, global brokerage firms, or investment banks preferred.
